Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-25

cent. of reports say the yield Is from Is
to 70 per cent. larger, per cent. say they
are the same, while the remainder put
the crop at from to 10 per cent. less.
From these reports it is estimated that
the average yield Is 50 bushels against
SIS bushels last year. The acreage as
given by the commissioner of statistics
Is 63l, 1868 against 557 COS last year. The
total yield last year was 1859 coo. The
total crop this year based on 50 bushels
per acre on 63l 1868 acres is &c, GIG,
an increase of about 100000. The
quality of the crop is generally very good,
most of 1t having been too far advanced
when the first frosts came to be seriously
injured. The corn crop in Dakota, as
estimated by the commissioner of immi-
grafton, is 24,511 600 on an acreage of
60S,Ooo. Although the reports received
from the territory are not as those from
Minnesota still the data at hand indicate
that the figures of the immigration com
missioner are very liberal. The crop
Is estimated at abeut 23,0co,000 bushels.
There has been a large increase in the
area planted TO corn this year, principal
~ In the southern portion of the terri
tory, where the plant thrives vigorously
and ripens early. 1t is well-known
fact that the crop in southern Dakota is
matured and ready for harvest before the
crops in Illinois and Iowa. The quality
of the corn crop in Dakota this year Is
excellent, and most of it woGld grade No.
l on the Chicago market.
The crop of cats raised in Minnesota
this year, although not quite as heavy an
average as last year, is much larger in the
total. The area sown to this crop in
1887 was 1,27S,000 against 1,12T 900 in
1856. The average yield last year was
nearly 50 bushels per acre, but the dry
weather and the chinch bugs in southern
Minnesota caused great damage to the
crop, and reduced the average to about
81 bushels. This on an acreage of 1,27S,-
600 gives total crop of 80, 631 900
against 81, $3.50 last year. The quality
of the crop is not as good as last year, as
the heavy rains, which came Just as har-
vest Was being finished, caused consider
able damage in some sections. For feed
ing purposes the crop is good enough,
but for shipment and consumption the
quality is not as good as it should be.
Very little OF this crop is sent out of the
state, however, and the bulk of it is con-
sumed at home. In Dakota about 1,0O0,-
OOO dSiGs "6IO sONu 10 tlllS crops ou WHICH
was raised about 10000, 900 bushels. The
quality of the crop in Dakota is excel
lent, and the average yield was from So
to 20 bushels, weighing from 40 to As
pounds, and one or two reports gave the
yield from so to 80 bushels per acre. The
acreage of flax in Minnesota this year is
not as large as a year ago. In many
counties the crop was damaged by the
hot and wet weather in 1886, and farmers
became discouraged and put the ground
to other crops this year. The acreage in
1886 was 100000; this year it is reported
at $4,000. The yield will be about 1,200,-
600 bushels. In Dakota the crop was
much larger. Very little fax is sown
north of the Northern Pacific railroad,
and its extensive cultivation is carried on
only in the southern counties. The area
sown this year was about 100000, and the
yield about 100000 bushels. The Quilt
walton of fax is very irregular. Some
farmers plant almost their entire acreage
to the crop, while others give 1t very
small proportion of their farms. New
settlers go largely into this crop, as it
can be raised very easily on new. soil and
with little care. The fax crop in the
territory has grown very rapidly, as in
1879 is amounted to only 26,000 bushels
In 1884 it had grown to 22S, 200 bushels,
and in 1885 to 100000.